The PyCon Blog

The PyCon organizers are thrilled to announce the launch of PyCon 2015! Following up a wildly successful 2014 event - the first major PyCon held outside of the US - Montréal again plays host to the Python community's annual gathering April 8-16. As with the previous three years, 2015 is sure to be a sell out show, with this fall's ticket sales expected to move quickly.A new year brings a new website, with Caktus Group creating yet another beautiful site for the Python Software Foundation. This year's site takes some visual cues from the conference venue, the Palais de Congrès de Montréal, featuring a colorful glass exterior reflected in the strands and highlights found around the site.

PyCon simply would not be possible without the generosity of its sponsors, especially those signed on early for today's launch. Sponsorship allows PyCon to do the types of things it does with financial aid and children's programs, and allows for affordable conference rates that haven't changed in many years, along with a period of early bird pricing discounts. Sponsorship also provides significant benefits to its supporting organizations, with many of them outlined on the site.Dropbox has signed on as a Financial Aid sponsor for this year, and Google has pledged support at the Diamond level. Sponsoring at the Platinum level are Caktus, HP, Thumbtack, and Eventbrite. Joining them at the Gold level are Red Hat, Walt Disney Animation Studios, American Greetings, Sentry, Fusionbox, Twilio, Amplify, Continuum Analytics, Lincoln Loop, SaltStack, Counsyl, Open edX, PythonAnywhere, Wingware, and Bank of America.This year's Silver sponsors are AWeber, OddBird, Net-ng, O'Reilly, Found, TrackMaven, Python Academy, MySQL, Ansible Inc., DreamHost, and G Adventures. The Python Software Foundation is an open source and community sponsor.If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring PyCon 2015, please contact conference chair Diana Clarke for more information.